For web designers, having successful client projects leads to happy clients, more referrals, a proven track record, and valuable experience and knowledge that can be used in future projects. But there is a lot that goes into making a project a success, and simply completing the design on time is not enough. In this article [...]
Nearly every business from local plumbers, large blue-chip organizations and even churches have websites, and each and every one wants to spread the message about their products, services and profiles, and what they can offer you as a consumer. That is where SEO comes in. SEO has become a valuable online marketing tool for businesses [...]
jQuery is slowly becoming ubiquitous in the web development arena all due to its easy to learn, easy to use and easy to extend nature. Here are 30+ fresh and amazing jQuery plugins and tutorials which i have hand-picked from jQuery articles or plugins published in last 30 days on the interwebs. If you are [...]
CSS is a language that is not difficult to master, but if you use it for a large project, it can be very difficult to manage if you do not follow a defined approach while writing CSS code. Here are few tips that will help you write better and easy to manage CSS code. 1. [...]
Adobe AIR gives developers all kinds of possibilities to create applications. As Adobe’s websites says, “The Adobe® AIR® runtime lets developers use proven web technologies to build rich Internet applications that run outside the browser on multiple operating systems.” In this post we’ll feature 35 tutorials that will help you to learn more about working [...]
Twitter is obviously a very useful tools for bloggers. Did you ever wanted to know how many times your posts are sent to Twitter by your readers? If yes, just read on and learn how to know it, and display it on your blog, in full text mode. paste the following function in your functions.php [...]
CSS is a language that is not difficult to master, but if you use it for a large project, it can be very difficult to manage if you do not follow a defined approach while writing CSS code. Here are few tips that will help you write better and easy to manage CSS code. 1. [...]
This tutorial will show you how to create a beveled star using adobe illustrator CS4. Using just the star tool, the line segment tool and the live paint bucket you will be able to replicate this 3D looking star. 1. Creating the star Start by opening a blank artboard and select the star tool (hidden [...]
CSS is important. And it is being used more and more often. Cascading Style Sheets offer many advantages you don’t have in table-layouts – and first of all a strict separation between layout, or design of the page, and the information, presented on the page. Thus the design of pages can be easily changed, just [...]
One of the most challenging aspects of design for many web designers is color selection. The color scheme of a site can have a huge impact on the overall look of the site, and it will have an impact on visitors as well. There are a number of different methods that can be used for [...]
About Robots.txt file It is great when search engines frequently visit your site and index your content but often there are cases when indexing parts of your online content is not what you want. This can be achieved by creating a simple text file on the root path of your server and naming it to [...]
Search Engine Optimization is the process or practice of designing web pages so that they rank as high as possible in search results from search engines. Typically, the earlier (or higher) a site appears in the search results list, the more visitors it will receive from the search engine. Optimizing a website primarily involves editing [...]
What is 301 Redirection? 301 redirect is the most efficient and search engine friendly (SEO) method for webpage redirection. One of the biggest advantage is that it also pass on the PageRank value and hence preserves the current search engine rankings for that particular page. It is the best and safest way in case of [...]
HTTP, Hypertext Transfer Protocol, is the method by which clients and servers communicate. When someone clicks a link, types in a URL or submits out a form, their browser sends a request to a server for information. It might be asking for a page, or sending data, but either way, that is called an HTTP [...]
Apple Flashy Accordion Sidebar Use the Accordion plugin in jQuery UI to create an Apple-alike WordPress sidebar. Adding Tabs to Sidebar Creating tabs on WordPress sidebar with Yahoo! UI Library Sidebar With Dynamic Contents Every blog visitor has different habits, but many tend to ignore sidebars because they are always the same. Mixing things up [...]
If you want to show your Facebook Statuses and you are hosting on a WordPress.com blog that restricts you from installing plugins, try this. The following method make use of Facebook status feed and WordPress RSS widget. It will also work for self-host WordPress blogs, but you guys who self-host can use better plugins for [...]
All bloggers would like to get more interaction and participation from their readers and visitors. In this post we’ll look at nine different things you can do to your WordPress theme to add the possibility of some type of interaction. Some involves comments, social media, and other ways of getting readers involved. 1. Show Most [...]
